ST. GEORGE. A 60-year-old worker fell the other day from a ladder plunging from a height of about two meters while working on a machine inside the Bobst multinational plant in San Giorgio. The worker reported a head injury and fractures to the sternum and vertebrae.
The 118 ambulance, thanks to the wide corridors of the company headquarters, managed to reach the worker and immediately load him on the rigid stretcher, transporting him to the Santi Antonio e Biagio hospital in Alessandria. An investigation by the carabinieri is underway to establish how the accident may have occurred.
The provincial metalworking unions Fiom, Uilm and Fim only learned about it yesterday morning. For a week, since an accident at work occurred at the Cold Car in Occimiano, they have been working on the issue of factory safety and reiterate “the need to pursue a path aimed at raising awareness in companies on health and safety at work”.
Next week they will agree on a strike hour to be able to hold a meeting within the company. “Strict compliance with the rules – they add – as well as greater controls by the bodies responsible for safety, is the only way forward”. Just yesterday in the company where workers from the former Cerutti di Casale were recently hired, a course on safety was scheduled.
Former workers certify this as they certify the insistence on the part of the management to respect the procedures and to provide those who do risky jobs with protective suits, such as helmets and anything else needed to work with less risk. Those who came from the former Cerutti attended various training courses in the San Giorgio factory, but “obviously – say the trade unions – there is still something that is not working and on this we need to intervene with a different culture on safety that we will start from the next week in all metalworking factories to avoid other injuries and deaths in the workplace ».